nudeadj.adv.n.

Brit.

/njuːd/, U.S.

/n(j)ud/

Forms: 1500s– nude, 1700s nud (in sense B. 2); Scottish pre-1700 nud, pre-1700 1700s– nude.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin nūdus.

Etymology: < classical Latin nūdus open, simple, plain, naked, bare, unclothed, (in legal use, of a promise) not attended by any formalities or pledges < the same Indo-European base as naked adj. In sense B. 2 after French †nud painting of a naked human figure (1676). Compare Anglo-Norman and Middle French nu, nud (early 12th cent.; French nu), Italian nudo (a1294; a1472 in sense ‘painting of a naked human figure’), Portuguese nu (13th cent. as nuu), Spanish nudo (1629 in legal sense).In the Scottish form nud perhaps after Anglo-Norman and Middle French nud. It is uncertain whether the following shows earlier use as an adverb or a borrowing of post-classical Latin nūdē, adverb (late 2nd cent. in Tertullian):a1449 in S. A. Moore Lett. & Papers J. Shillingford (1871) ii. 132 Y John Shillynford..byseke yow..that hit like yow so to rule the seide Bysshop Dean and Chapitre that they yn pleyn wyse nude and open may put yn yn wrytyng alle thyngs the whiche they fele ham greved of..[etc.].

A. adj. (and adv.)

1. Law.

a. Of a statement, promise, etc.: not formally attested or recorded. Now archaic and rare.

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society > law > rule of law > illegality > [adjective] > legally invalid or faulty > of limited legal validity > not specially supported or confirmed

simple1340

nakedc1400

nude1493

illiquid1694

1493 in Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. 262/2 Þ^t þe copy of þe said procuratory wes nocht insert in þe said instrument bot said of þe nud word of þe said noter.

1530 St. German's Secunde Dyaloge Doctour & Student xii. f. xxvii That euery man by a nude parol and by a bare auerment shuld auoyde an oblygacyon.

1530 St. German's Secunde Dyaloge Doctour & Student xxiii. f. lx^v Yf a man seased of landes make a gyfte theorof or graunte by a nude promyse.

1594 W. West Symbolæogr.: 2nd Pt. ii. Chancerie §37 If by such nude averrments matters of record should be avoided.

1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Vv4/1 Kitchin..saith, that nude mater is not of so high nature, as either a mater of Record or a speciality.

1634 Irish Act 10 Charles I Sess. 2. c. 1 Preamble Wills and testaments..made by nude parolx and words.

c1642 Contra-replicant's Compl. 2 The next Art of our Replicant is to impose those his nude averments, which are most false and improbable.

?1659 A. Brome Rec. in Rithme 8 This Said Replication insufficient is, Negative, pregnant, and uncertain, nude, Double, wants forme, and does not conclude Rightly, according to the legal way.

1971 J. R. R. Tolkien Let. 8 Jan. (1995) 406 My claim rests really on my ‘nude parole’ or unsupported assertion that I remember the occasion of its invention (by me).

b. Of a contract or pact: lacking consideration and so void unless made by deed; (more generally) unenforceable. Cf. nudum pactum n.

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society > law > legal obligation > contract > [adjective] > specific other types

nude1530

simple1530

restrictive1580

innominate1774

1530 St. German's Secunde Dyaloge Doctour & Student xxiv. f. lxii^v A nude contracte ys where a man maketh a bargeyne or a sale of hys goodes or landes without any recompence appoynted for yt.

1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Nude contract, in Common-law, is a bare contract, or promise of any thing without assigning, or agreeing what another shall give.

1683 R. Dixon Canidia iii. xvi. 142 You say a Nude Pact's of no more force than a Lye. And yet I am bound my Gold to bring, As if it were the Word of a King.

1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. xxx. 445 Any degree of reciprocity will prevent the pact from being nude.

1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) iii. 361 A nude pact creates no (civil) obligation, but creates a defence.

1975 A. W. B. Simpson Hist. Common Law Contract 383 The question whether nude pacts were binding was not an enormously important one.

1981 Waterbury (Connecticut) American 23 Jan. 32/1 ‘Nude’ is used in law to indicate, as in ‘nude contract’, that a contract has been made without consideration.

†c. Of a person: receiving no profit from supervising a transaction. Esp. in nude executor. Obsolete.

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society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > [noun] > management or disposal of estate > one who > executor not benefitting from will

nude executor1590

1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes iv. f. 176 If the testator giue his goods to one person, and make another executor: this executor is called Nude executor, for that he reapeth no commoditie by the testament.

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 269 A nude Executor here mention'd is no more than an Executor in Trust.

1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) iii. 422 Including the nude or nominal proprietor.

†2. Open, explicit; mere, plain. Obsolete.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > state or quality of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded > [adjective] > without addition or qualification > bare or mere

mereeOE

nakedOE

barec1200

purec1325

singlec1421

very1548

nude1551

absolute?1570

blank1596

female1602

clear1606

1551 T. Cranmer Answer S. Gardiner 11 Is therfore the whole vse of the bread..but a naked or nude and bare token?

1581 J. Hamilton Catholik Traictise f. 26 The Calvinists can not schau..ony place, quhair the vordis..ar tane for nude takins and signis.

1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie To Innes of Court, sig. Avii I did alwaies abhor the nude title, and bare skill of a Blazoner, things common to each painter, & tricker of Armes.

1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 89 Yet this could be..but a nude conjecture.

1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 34 A bare accident and a nude casualty.

1806 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) II. 127 In the nude cypherableness of the story and in the omnifariousness of the language.

a. Of an object, plant, animal, etc.: naked, bare; lacking natural covering, foliage, etc.; smooth, hairless; (also, of a building, etc.) empty, unadorned.

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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [adjective]

bleteOE

openOE

unlapped?c1225

unweveda1250

overtc1330

discovereda1463

uncovered1530

undiscovered1542

debare1567

uncased1598

unmantled1606

naked1607

ungarbed1848

nude1866

uncapped1902

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room generally > [adjective] > others

lightsome1548

thorough-lighted1624

prospectless1656

nude1867

boudoiresque1880

step-up1979

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Nude, bare, naked, uncovered; void, empty, destitute; poor.

1794 T. Dwight Greenfield Hill iv. 95 Where frown'd the nude rock, and the desert shore, Now pleasure sports, and business want beguiles.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 794/2 Nude,..bald from the total absence of hairs, or uncovered in consequence of the absence of any investing organs.

1867 M. E. Herbert Cradle Lands iii. 85 A nude modern octagonal room.

1879 R. L. Stevenson Trav. with Donkey (1886) 74 A broad nude valley in Vivarais.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 1124 The bladders may..remain entirely nude and free in the peritoneal cavity.

1926 E. O'Neill Great God Brown i. iii. 46 I am thy shorn, bald, nude sheep!

1964 D. Varaday Gara-Yaka xii. 102 (caption) Vultures like baubles on a nude tree.

1981 Hi-Fi Ann. & Test '81 81/4 The 30 has a nude fine-line stylus.

b. Of a person or a part of the human body, or its representation in art, etc.: wearing no clothes, naked, bare. Also as adv.Whereas the term naked is generally regarded as a neutral descriptive term, nude is now often used in contexts of suggestive or gratuitous display (see also senses A. 3c and A. 3d).

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > nakedness or state of being unclothed > [adjective]

nakedOE

bareOE

start nakedc1225

nakec1300

unarrayedc1380

clothelessc1386

mother-nakedc1390

stark nakedc1390

bareda1400

naked as a needlec1400

unattiredc1400

uncladc1400

uncoveredc1400

loose1423

unclothedc1440

belly-nakeda1500

naked as one's nail1563

unabuilyeit1568

sindonlessc1595

leathern1596

disarrayed1611

undressed1613

debaredc1620

unapparelled1622

unaccoutred?1750

stark1762

disrobed1794

ungarmented1798

undraped1814

au naturel1828

nude1830

skyclad1832

garbless1838

kitless1846

spar-naked1849

raimentless1852

undoffed1854

togless1857

garmentless1866

naked as a robin1866

clothesless1868

sky clothed1878

nakedized1885

altogether1896

buck naked1913

raw1916

bollock naked1922

starkers1923

starko1923

stitchless1927

naked as a jaybird1931

bollock1950

rollock naked1962

nekkid1977

kit-off1992

1830 G. Croly Paris in 1815 in Poet. Wks. 13 Spot of corruption! where the rabble rude Loiter round tinsel tomes, and figures nude.

1832 S. L. Fairfield Last Night Pompeii ii. 76 Frescoes, picturing the satyr joys..And fountains, with nude naiads twining round The unveiled tritons.

1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xxxiv. 377 The cadaverous, half nude varlets that served in the establishment had nothing of poetry in their appearance.

1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths I. 73 He was so used to seeing pretty nude feet at Trouville.

1913 E. F. Benson Thorley Weir i. 23 The nude figure of a boy on the header-board in the act of springing from it into the water.

1937 Dict. National Biogr. 1922–30 at Lady Feodora G. M. Gleichen The Diana fountain in Rotten Row, Hyde Park, surmounted by a bronze figure of the nude goddess discharging an arrow.

1972 L. Deighton Close-up xx Her apartment overlooked the Tiber and there was a roof garden where she sunbathed nude.

1991 Time 15 July 74/3 Shake free of the plastic society, hug each other, wear feathers.., jiggle around nude.

c. Of a work of art, form of entertainment, etc.: involving or portraying one or more naked or scantily clad people; performed without clothing. Also of an actor or model: that performs or poses unclothed.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > other dramatic or variety performances > [adjective]

self-acted1868

nude1869

pier head1909

showboating1936

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > a photograph > [adjective] > photograph by style or subject

vignetted1867

nude1869

candid1929

pin-up1941

upskirt1994

1869 D. N. Camp Amer. Year-bk. I. 791 Her charms, so freely exhibited on the stage at this time that to her example the successful origin of the nude drama is attributed, were also used as the means of unnumbered conquests.

1874 Atlantic Monthly Nov. 532 We, of the legitimate, who regard the nude drama as a highly demoralizing innovation..went our several ways.

1888 Dict. National Biogr. at Daniel, George Several extant oil-paintings..are not improbably the work of George himself, as is also the full-length nude study of a nymph.

1959 Listener 15 Jan. 132/3 The night-clubs in Calvin's city put on nude shows.

1974 Publishers Weekly 26 Aug. 250/3 A novel about a nude model who longs for true love.

1982 A. Maupin Further Tales of City 81 Some of the boys did an impressive nude water ballet to the music of ‘Tea for Two’.

2000 Country Music People May 30/3 He shouldn't have taken those nude photos, but no matter.

d. Of an activity: carried out without clothes on. Also, of a beach or other place: reserved or designed for nudists.

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1884 Overland Monthly July 94/2 No scandal seems to be caused by their habit of nude bathing.

1894 J. Ralph in Harper's Mag. Aug. 341 Nude bathing will not be permitted.

1966 Playboy Dec. 234/2 BB indulges in a nude sun bath amidst a yardful of drying laundry.

1978 K. Tynan Let. 21 May (1994) viii. 613 Dozens of beaches nearby, including a nude one and several topless.

1986 I. Wedde Symmes Hole (1988) 78 A nude dash up Grass Street in the dark.

2000 Independent 24 Apr. i. 13/2 Nude beaches were legalised long ago in every state except Queensland.

4. Of a pinkish beige colour.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > of specific colour

subfusc1820

blue-collared1837

thunder and lightning1837

subfusc1853

Lovat1895

nude1922

the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] > pale red or pink

incarnatea1533

fleshy1555

incarnation1562

pallet1565

peach1583

bepurfurate1584

blush1597

carnation1598

peachy1599

peach-coloured1600

pink-coloured1600

incarnadine1605

pink1607

blush-coloured1626

blushy1626

gridelin1652

carnationeda1658

pinky1661

carneous1673

peach blossom1702

flesh-coloured1703

flesh-colour1711

mushroom-coloured1770

salmon-coloured1776

pinkish1785

salmon1786

blush-tinted1818

flesh-red1819

naturelle1873

flesh-pink1882

lilac-pink1882

pinksome1913

nude1922

magnolia-pink1931

salmony1935

magnolia1963

1922 Daily Mail 18 Dec. 2 (advt.) Ladies' Hose... Black, white,..taupe, navy, nude, and all shades.

1926 People's Home Jrnl. Feb. 14/4 One shade of green, for example, adopts black shoes with beige or nude stockings most successfully.

1931 M. de la Roche Finch's Fortune ix. 156 She had on..‘nude’ stockings.

1973 Philadelphia Inquirer 14 Oct. (Today Suppl.) 17/3 (advt.) Choose black, brown, navy or nude calfskin.

1992 Looks July 34/2 Cindy tends to wear neutral and nude shades of brown to define her features.

5. Medicine and Biology. Designating a mouse of a strain homozygous for a mutant gene that produces hypoplasia of the thymus gland with severe T-cell immunodeficiency and apparent hairlessness. Also: designating the mutant gene itself.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [adjective] > of other types of mice or rats

sigmodont1877

multimammate1902

nude1966

1966 S. P. Flanagan in Genetical Res. 8 295 The majority of nude mice die of general body weakness within 2 weeks.

1974 Nature 20 Sept. 184/2 Nude mice have spread through the immunological world at a remarkable pace... The thymus abnormality leads to a marked deficiency in thymus-derived (T) lymphocytes and nude mice are rapidly replacing thymectomised mice as models of T cell deprivation and as a source of relatively pure B lymphocytes for in vitro studies.

1988 Mouse News Let. Nov. 9 Eight nude gene congenic strains which have different genetic backgrounds have been developed and are maintained for animal experiments on xenografts (human cancers) in our institute.

B. n.

a. Chiefly Art. A painting, sculpture, photograph, etc., of a naked human figure; a figure in such a painting, etc. Also: a naked person.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > an artistic representation > of living thing > of human figure > nude or the nude

naked1622

nudity1662

nude1708

naked1744

nude1760

1699 M. Lister Journey to Paris (new ed.) 28 Such [statues] as were made Nudae are miserably disguised.]

1708 E. Hatton New View London II. 824/2 A Nude or Nudity, is a naked Figure painted or sculpted, without Drapery (or Cloathing).

1813 T. Dibdin Metrical Hist. Eng. II. 258 Our British fair, no longer prudes, Improved to lib'ral minded Nudes.

a1849 H. Coleridge Ess. & Marginalia (1851) I. 205 Are not the greatest masters almost as much celebrated for their draperies as for their nudes?

1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 May 3/2 We went round the Academy noticing the..pictures, and dismissing..a certain number of nudes, babies, and portraits of nobodies.

1922 R. Fry Let. 12 Apr. (1972) II. 525 [Picasso]'s doing wonderful little pictures of nudes..in egg tempera.

1989 M. Gimbutas Lang. of Goddess iii. xviii. 200 Carved of bone, Stiff Nudes became elongated and quite slender, but they portray the same rigid posture of the Deity.

2002 A. Shelley Island in Snow Monkey 4 No. 2. 9 From a little out to sea the visible area of beach is a stage nudes move on.

†b. A woman who wears very low-necked dresses. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [noun] > wearing other clothing > one who

Court-mantlec1367

Sunday citizen1598

longcoat1603

lettice ruffa1625

silkworma1625

copester1637

short-coat1649

Scotch-sleeve?1706

Evite1713

uniform1786

nude1810

blue-stockinged1818

waistcoateer1825

padder1828

stook of duds1834

bloomer1851

sleeve1851

shirt1860

shirtwaister1900

DJ1926

rat-catcher1928

sweater girl1940

zoot-suiter1942

Edwardian1954

penguin1967

overcoat1969

1810 Spirit of Public Jrnls. 13 273 As a link-boy was showing a certain fashionable nude, in Baker Street, out of her carriage [etc.].

a. Art. With the: the naked or undraped human figure conceived of as an aesthetic object; the representation of this in art.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > an artistic representation > of living thing > of human figure > nude or the nude

naked1622

nudity1662

nude1708

naked1744

nude1760

1760 D. Webb Inq. Beauties Painting iv. 51 The result of this habit is evident, when our first artists come to design the nud.

1782 R. Cumberland Anecd. Painters Spain I. 56 Being most in the nude, their crime will in some people's judgment appear their recommendation.

1854 T. Martin Correggio iii. 65 I love the nude; Garments are nothing but the veils to beauty.

1868 R. Browning Ring & Bk. I. i. 4 Modern chalk drawings, studies from the nude.

1887 F. M. Crawford Saracinesca i The French school had not [yet] demonstrated the startling distinction between the nude and the naked.

1915 W. Cather Song of Lark i. xvi. 111 Ray found that his brakemen were likely to have what he termed ‘a taste for the nude in art’.

1974 M. Ayrton Midas Consequence viii. 208 Most of what I do is founded on, or derived from, the nude, the stripped human body, as is most of the good bronze sculpture in this world.

1992 Crafts Mar. 19/2 The nude is confronted in life class (and notice it is not called drawing class).

b. in the nude: naked, unclothed. Also in extended use.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > nakedness or state of being unclothed > [noun]

nakedOE

nakednessOE

nakedheadc1330

nudity1611

the (also a) state of nature1802

nudeness1848

in the nude1856

clotheslessness1883

1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh iii. 114 Stands sublimely in the nude, as chaste As Medicean Venus.

1882 Globe 14 Dec. 5/5 They had seen him modelling..from Miss Felden, who stood in the nude as a model.

1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors III. vi. 112 He was a picture of Guilt in the nude, imploring to be sent into concealment.

1951 S. J. Perelman Let. 24 Oct. in Don't tread on Me (1987) 113 A state of frustration comparable to that of a man whose lingam is laid up for repairs only to have Ava Gardner, Jane Russell, and Marilyn Monroe prancing around him in the nude.

1966 A. Higgins Langrishe, go Down xxi. 155 I went..across to the plantation, stripped and ran round in the nude.

1995 D. McLean Bunker Man 76 It fanned open on a spread of two women having a water-pistol fight in the nude.

3. Medicine and Biology. A nude mouse; the nude gene. Cf. sense A. 5.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Muridae > genus Mus or mouse > of particular form, habits, or habitat

country mouse1553

tree-mouse1897

nude1966

1966 S. P. Flannagan in Genetical Res. 8 295 The hairless mutant was formed by Dr. N. R. Grist of the Virus Laboratory, Ruchill Hospital, Glasgow... The name ‘nude’, symbol nu, has been adopted.

1968 Nature 27 Jan. 371/1 (heading) Section of liver of an adult homozygote nude.

1977 P. B. Medawar & J. S. Medawar Life Sci. xiv. 120 The mutant mice known as nudes in which cell-mediated immunity is so gravely impaired that even grafts of human tissues can be accepted are not nearly so susceptible to tumours as the theory of immunological surveillance encourages us to believe.

1987 N. Maclean Macmillan Dict. Genetics & Cell Biol. 280/1 Mice homozygous for the gene ‘nude’ are referred to as nu nu.

Derivatives

ˈnudely adv. barely, simply, plainly; in an unclothed or unconcealed state.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > state or quality of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded > [adverb] > without addition or qualification

simplya1325

singlya1400

simpliciter?a1425

merelyc1449

nudelya1631

a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1956) VIII. 102 Being crudely, and nudely taken, not decocted and boyl'd up.

1888 R. Kipling Early Verse (1986) 391 Crudely, nudely, rudely, rawly, Saying, ‘Take back this Macauley’.

1910 H. James Let. 14 Mar. in H. James & E. Wharton Lett. (1990) iii. 153 Osler ‘examined’ me more thoroughly & nudely than I have ever been examined before.

1973 A. Hunter Gently French xi. 96 She got out of bed and stood for a moment, nudely glaring.

ˈnudeness n. the state of being naked or unclothed.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > nakedness or state of being unclothed > [noun]

nakedOE

nakednessOE

nakedheadc1330

nudity1611

the (also a) state of nature1802

nudeness1848

in the nude1856

clotheslessness1883

1848 T. H. Chivers Virginalia (1853) 93 As Winter waits for Spring to come again, And robe her nudeness in her green array.

1895 Cent. Mag. Aug. 494/2 Whether the nudeness itself outraged his sense of propriety.

1995 A. Warner Morvern Callar (1996) 192 You watched the holidaymakers in different stages of nudeness move along the promenade.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	nude
释义	nudeadj.adv.n. Brit. /njuːd/, U.S. /n(j)ud/ Forms: 1500s– nude, 1700s nud (in sense B. 2); Scottish pre-1700 nud, pre-1700 1700s– nude. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin nūdus. Etymology: < classical Latin nūdus open, simple, plain, naked, bare, unclothed, (in legal use, of a promise) not attended by any formalities or pledges < the same Indo-European base as naked adj. In sense B. 2 after French †nud painting of a naked human figure (1676). Compare Anglo-Norman and Middle French nu, nud (early 12th cent.; French nu), Italian nudo (a1294; a1472 in sense ‘painting of a naked human figure’), Portuguese nu (13th cent. as nuu), Spanish nudo (1629 in legal sense).In the Scottish form nud perhaps after Anglo-Norman and Middle French nud. It is uncertain whether the following shows earlier use as an adverb or a borrowing of post-classical Latin nūdē, adverb (late 2nd cent. in Tertullian):a1449 in S. A. Moore Lett. & Papers J. Shillingford (1871) ii. 132 Y John Shillynford..byseke yow..that hit like yow so to rule the seide Bysshop Dean and Chapitre that they yn pleyn wyse nude and open may put yn yn wrytyng alle thyngs the whiche they fele ham greved of..[etc.]. A. adj. (and adv.) 1. Law. a. Of a statement, promise, etc.: not formally attested or recorded. Now archaic and rare. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > illegality > [adjective] > legally invalid or faulty > of limited legal validity > not specially supported or confirmed simple1340 nakedc1400 nude1493 illiquid1694 1493 in Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. 262/2 Þ^t þe copy of þe said procuratory wes nocht insert in þe said instrument bot said of þe nud word of þe said noter. 1530 St. German's Secunde Dyaloge Doctour & Student xii. f. xxvii That euery man by a nude parol and by a bare auerment shuld auoyde an oblygacyon. 1530 St. German's Secunde Dyaloge Doctour & Student xxiii. f. lx^v Yf a man seased of landes make a gyfte theorof or graunte by a nude promyse. 1594 W. West Symbolæogr.: 2nd Pt. ii. Chancerie §37 If by such nude averrments matters of record should be avoided. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Vv4/1 Kitchin..saith, that nude mater is not of so high nature, as either a mater of Record or a speciality. 1634 Irish Act 10 Charles I Sess. 2. c. 1 Preamble Wills and testaments..made by nude parolx and words. c1642 Contra-replicant's Compl. 2 The next Art of our Replicant is to impose those his nude averments, which are most false and improbable. ?1659 A. Brome Rec. in Rithme 8 This Said Replication insufficient is, Negative, pregnant, and uncertain, nude, Double, wants forme, and does not conclude Rightly, according to the legal way. 1971 J. R. R. Tolkien Let. 8 Jan. (1995) 406 My claim rests really on my ‘nude parole’ or unsupported assertion that I remember the occasion of its invention (by me). b. Of a contract or pact: lacking consideration and so void unless made by deed; (more generally) unenforceable. Cf. nudum pactum n. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal obligation > contract > [adjective] > specific other types nude1530 simple1530 restrictive1580 innominate1774 1530 St. German's Secunde Dyaloge Doctour & Student xxiv. f. lxii^v A nude contracte ys where a man maketh a bargeyne or a sale of hys goodes or landes without any recompence appoynted for yt. 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Nude contract, in Common-law, is a bare contract, or promise of any thing without assigning, or agreeing what another shall give. 1683 R. Dixon Canidia iii. xvi. 142 You say a Nude Pact's of no more force than a Lye. And yet I am bound my Gold to bring, As if it were the Word of a King. 1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. xxx. 445 Any degree of reciprocity will prevent the pact from being nude. 1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) iii. 361 A nude pact creates no (civil) obligation, but creates a defence. 1975 A. W. B. Simpson Hist. Common Law Contract 383 The question whether nude pacts were binding was not an enormously important one. 1981 Waterbury (Connecticut) American 23 Jan. 32/1 ‘Nude’ is used in law to indicate, as in ‘nude contract’, that a contract has been made without consideration. †c. Of a person: receiving no profit from supervising a transaction. Esp. in nude executor. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > [noun] > management or disposal of estate > one who > executor not benefitting from will nude executor1590 1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes iv. f. 176 If the testator giue his goods to one person, and make another executor: this executor is called Nude executor, for that he reapeth no commoditie by the testament. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 269 A nude Executor here mention'd is no more than an Executor in Trust. 1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) iii. 422 Including the nude or nominal proprietor. †2. Open, explicit; mere, plain. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > state or quality of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded > [adjective] > without addition or qualification > bare or mere mereeOE nakedOE barec1200 purec1325 singlec1421 very1548 nude1551 absolute?1570 blank1596 female1602 clear1606 1551 T. Cranmer Answer S. Gardiner 11 Is therfore the whole vse of the bread..but a naked or nude and bare token? 1581 J. Hamilton Catholik Traictise f. 26 The Calvinists can not schau..ony place, quhair the vordis..ar tane for nude takins and signis. 1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie To Innes of Court, sig. Avii I did alwaies abhor the nude title, and bare skill of a Blazoner, things common to each painter, & tricker of Armes. 1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 89 Yet this could be..but a nude conjecture. 1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 34 A bare accident and a nude casualty. 1806 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) II. 127 In the nude cypherableness of the story and in the omnifariousness of the language. 3. a. Of an object, plant, animal, etc.: naked, bare; lacking natural covering, foliage, etc.; smooth, hairless; (also, of a building, etc.) empty, unadorned. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [adjective] bleteOE openOE unlapped?c1225 unweveda1250 overtc1330 discovereda1463 uncovered1530 undiscovered1542 debare1567 uncased1598 unmantled1606 naked1607 ungarbed1848 nude1866 uncapped1902 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room generally > [adjective] > others lightsome1548 thorough-lighted1624 prospectless1656 nude1867 boudoiresque1880 step-up1979 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Nude, bare, naked, uncovered; void, empty, destitute; poor. 1794 T. Dwight Greenfield Hill iv. 95 Where frown'd the nude rock, and the desert shore, Now pleasure sports, and business want beguiles. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 794/2 Nude,..bald from the total absence of hairs, or uncovered in consequence of the absence of any investing organs. 1867 M. E. Herbert Cradle Lands iii. 85 A nude modern octagonal room. 1879 R. L. Stevenson Trav. with Donkey (1886) 74 A broad nude valley in Vivarais. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 1124 The bladders may..remain entirely nude and free in the peritoneal cavity. 1926 E. O'Neill Great God Brown i. iii. 46 I am thy shorn, bald, nude sheep! 1964 D. Varaday Gara-Yaka xii. 102 (caption) Vultures like baubles on a nude tree. 1981 Hi-Fi Ann. & Test '81 81/4 The 30 has a nude fine-line stylus. b. Of a person or a part of the human body, or its representation in art, etc.: wearing no clothes, naked, bare. Also as adv.Whereas the term naked is generally regarded as a neutral descriptive term, nude is now often used in contexts of suggestive or gratuitous display (see also senses A. 3c and A. 3d). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > nakedness or state of being unclothed > [adjective] nakedOE bareOE start nakedc1225 nakec1300 unarrayedc1380 clothelessc1386 mother-nakedc1390 stark nakedc1390 bareda1400 naked as a needlec1400 unattiredc1400 uncladc1400 uncoveredc1400 loose1423 unclothedc1440 belly-nakeda1500 naked as one's nail1563 unabuilyeit1568 sindonlessc1595 leathern1596 disarrayed1611 undressed1613 debaredc1620 unapparelled1622 unaccoutred?1750 stark1762 disrobed1794 ungarmented1798 undraped1814 au naturel1828 nude1830 skyclad1832 garbless1838 kitless1846 spar-naked1849 raimentless1852 undoffed1854 togless1857 garmentless1866 naked as a robin1866 clothesless1868 sky clothed1878 nakedized1885 altogether1896 buck naked1913 raw1916 bollock naked1922 starkers1923 starko1923 stitchless1927 naked as a jaybird1931 bollock1950 rollock naked1962 nekkid1977 kit-off1992 1830 G. Croly Paris in 1815 in Poet. Wks. 13 Spot of corruption! where the rabble rude Loiter round tinsel tomes, and figures nude. 1832 S. L. Fairfield Last Night Pompeii ii. 76 Frescoes, picturing the satyr joys..And fountains, with nude naiads twining round The unveiled tritons. 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xxxiv. 377 The cadaverous, half nude varlets that served in the establishment had nothing of poetry in their appearance. 1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths I. 73 He was so used to seeing pretty nude feet at Trouville. 1913 E. F. Benson Thorley Weir i. 23 The nude figure of a boy on the header-board in the act of springing from it into the water. 1937 Dict. National Biogr. 1922–30 at Lady Feodora G. M. Gleichen The Diana fountain in Rotten Row, Hyde Park, surmounted by a bronze figure of the nude goddess discharging an arrow. 1972 L. Deighton Close-up xx Her apartment overlooked the Tiber and there was a roof garden where she sunbathed nude. 1991 Time 15 July 74/3 Shake free of the plastic society, hug each other, wear feathers.., jiggle around nude. c. Of a work of art, form of entertainment, etc.: involving or portraying one or more naked or scantily clad people; performed without clothing. Also of an actor or model: that performs or poses unclothed. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > other dramatic or variety performances > [adjective] self-acted1868 nude1869 pier head1909 showboating1936 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > a photograph > [adjective] > photograph by style or subject vignetted1867 nude1869 candid1929 pin-up1941 upskirt1994 1869 D. N. Camp Amer. Year-bk. I. 791 Her charms, so freely exhibited on the stage at this time that to her example the successful origin of the nude drama is attributed, were also used as the means of unnumbered conquests. 1874 Atlantic Monthly Nov. 532 We, of the legitimate, who regard the nude drama as a highly demoralizing innovation..went our several ways. 1888 Dict. National Biogr. at Daniel, George Several extant oil-paintings..are not improbably the work of George himself, as is also the full-length nude study of a nymph. 1959 Listener 15 Jan. 132/3 The night-clubs in Calvin's city put on nude shows. 1974 Publishers Weekly 26 Aug. 250/3 A novel about a nude model who longs for true love. 1982 A. Maupin Further Tales of City 81 Some of the boys did an impressive nude water ballet to the music of ‘Tea for Two’. 2000 Country Music People May 30/3 He shouldn't have taken those nude photos, but no matter. d. Of an activity: carried out without clothes on. Also, of a beach or other place: reserved or designed for nudists. ΚΠ 1884 Overland Monthly July 94/2 No scandal seems to be caused by their habit of nude bathing. 1894 J. Ralph in Harper's Mag. Aug. 341 Nude bathing will not be permitted. 1966 Playboy Dec. 234/2 BB indulges in a nude sun bath amidst a yardful of drying laundry. 1978 K. Tynan Let. 21 May (1994) viii. 613 Dozens of beaches nearby, including a nude one and several topless. 1986 I. Wedde Symmes Hole (1988) 78 A nude dash up Grass Street in the dark. 2000 Independent 24 Apr. i. 13/2 Nude beaches were legalised long ago in every state except Queensland. 4. Of a pinkish beige colour. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > of specific colour subfusc1820 blue-collared1837 thunder and lightning1837 subfusc1853 Lovat1895 nude1922 the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] > pale red or pink incarnatea1533 fleshy1555 incarnation1562 pallet1565 peach1583 bepurfurate1584 blush1597 carnation1598 peachy1599 peach-coloured1600 pink-coloured1600 incarnadine1605 pink1607 blush-coloured1626 blushy1626 gridelin1652 carnationeda1658 pinky1661 carneous1673 peach blossom1702 flesh-coloured1703 flesh-colour1711 mushroom-coloured1770 salmon-coloured1776 pinkish1785 salmon1786 blush-tinted1818 flesh-red1819 naturelle1873 flesh-pink1882 lilac-pink1882 pinksome1913 nude1922 magnolia-pink1931 salmony1935 magnolia1963 1922 Daily Mail 18 Dec. 2 (advt.) Ladies' Hose... Black, white,..taupe, navy, nude, and all shades. 1926 People's Home Jrnl. Feb. 14/4 One shade of green, for example, adopts black shoes with beige or nude stockings most successfully. 1931 M. de la Roche Finch's Fortune ix. 156 She had on..‘nude’ stockings. 1973 Philadelphia Inquirer 14 Oct. (Today Suppl.) 17/3 (advt.) Choose black, brown, navy or nude calfskin. 1992 Looks July 34/2 Cindy tends to wear neutral and nude shades of brown to define her features. 5. Medicine and Biology. Designating a mouse of a strain homozygous for a mutant gene that produces hypoplasia of the thymus gland with severe T-cell immunodeficiency and apparent hairlessness. Also: designating the mutant gene itself. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [adjective] > of other types of mice or rats sigmodont1877 multimammate1902 nude1966 1966 S. P. Flanagan in Genetical Res. 8 295 The majority of nude mice die of general body weakness within 2 weeks. 1974 Nature 20 Sept. 184/2 Nude mice have spread through the immunological world at a remarkable pace... The thymus abnormality leads to a marked deficiency in thymus-derived (T) lymphocytes and nude mice are rapidly replacing thymectomised mice as models of T cell deprivation and as a source of relatively pure B lymphocytes for in vitro studies. 1988 Mouse News Let. Nov. 9 Eight nude gene congenic strains which have different genetic backgrounds have been developed and are maintained for animal experiments on xenografts (human cancers) in our institute. B. n. 1. a. Chiefly Art. A painting, sculpture, photograph, etc., of a naked human figure; a figure in such a painting, etc. Also: a naked person. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > an artistic representation > of living thing > of human figure > nude or the nude naked1622 nudity1662 nude1708 naked1744 nude1760 1699 M. Lister Journey to Paris (new ed.) 28 Such [statues] as were made Nudae are miserably disguised.] 1708 E. Hatton New View London II. 824/2 A Nude or Nudity, is a naked Figure painted or sculpted, without Drapery (or Cloathing). 1813 T. Dibdin Metrical Hist. Eng. II. 258 Our British fair, no longer prudes, Improved to lib'ral minded Nudes. a1849 H. Coleridge Ess. & Marginalia (1851) I. 205 Are not the greatest masters almost as much celebrated for their draperies as for their nudes? 1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 May 3/2 We went round the Academy noticing the..pictures, and dismissing..a certain number of nudes, babies, and portraits of nobodies. 1922 R. Fry Let. 12 Apr. (1972) II. 525 [Picasso]'s doing wonderful little pictures of nudes..in egg tempera. 1989 M. Gimbutas Lang. of Goddess iii. xviii. 200 Carved of bone, Stiff Nudes became elongated and quite slender, but they portray the same rigid posture of the Deity. 2002 A. Shelley Island in Snow Monkey 4 No. 2. 9 From a little out to sea the visible area of beach is a stage nudes move on. †b. A woman who wears very low-necked dresses. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [noun] > wearing other clothing > one who Court-mantlec1367 Sunday citizen1598 longcoat1603 lettice ruffa1625 silkworma1625 copester1637 short-coat1649 Scotch-sleeve?1706 Evite1713 uniform1786 nude1810 blue-stockinged1818 waistcoateer1825 padder1828 stook of duds1834 bloomer1851 sleeve1851 shirt1860 shirtwaister1900 DJ1926 rat-catcher1928 sweater girl1940 zoot-suiter1942 Edwardian1954 penguin1967 overcoat1969 1810 Spirit of Public Jrnls. 13 273 As a link-boy was showing a certain fashionable nude, in Baker Street, out of her carriage [etc.]. 2. a. Art. With the: the naked or undraped human figure conceived of as an aesthetic object; the representation of this in art. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > an artistic representation > of living thing > of human figure > nude or the nude naked1622 nudity1662 nude1708 naked1744 nude1760 1760 D. Webb Inq. Beauties Painting iv. 51 The result of this habit is evident, when our first artists come to design the nud. 1782 R. Cumberland Anecd. Painters Spain I. 56 Being most in the nude, their crime will in some people's judgment appear their recommendation. 1854 T. Martin Correggio iii. 65 I love the nude; Garments are nothing but the veils to beauty. 1868 R. Browning Ring & Bk. I. i. 4 Modern chalk drawings, studies from the nude. 1887 F. M. Crawford Saracinesca i The French school had not [yet] demonstrated the startling distinction between the nude and the naked. 1915 W. Cather Song of Lark i. xvi. 111 Ray found that his brakemen were likely to have what he termed ‘a taste for the nude in art’. 1974 M. Ayrton Midas Consequence viii. 208 Most of what I do is founded on, or derived from, the nude, the stripped human body, as is most of the good bronze sculpture in this world. 1992 Crafts Mar. 19/2 The nude is confronted in life class (and notice it is not called drawing class). b. in the nude: naked, unclothed. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > nakedness or state of being unclothed > [noun] nakedOE nakedOE nakednessOE nakedheadc1330 nudity1611 the (also a) state of nature1802 nudeness1848 in the nude1856 clotheslessness1883 1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh iii. 114 Stands sublimely in the nude, as chaste As Medicean Venus. 1882 Globe 14 Dec. 5/5 They had seen him modelling..from Miss Felden, who stood in the nude as a model. 1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors III. vi. 112 He was a picture of Guilt in the nude, imploring to be sent into concealment. 1951 S. J. Perelman Let. 24 Oct. in Don't tread on Me (1987) 113 A state of frustration comparable to that of a man whose lingam is laid up for repairs only to have Ava Gardner, Jane Russell, and Marilyn Monroe prancing around him in the nude. 1966 A. Higgins Langrishe, go Down xxi. 155 I went..across to the plantation, stripped and ran round in the nude. 1995 D. McLean Bunker Man 76 It fanned open on a spread of two women having a water-pistol fight in the nude. 3. Medicine and Biology. A nude mouse; the nude gene. Cf. sense A. 5. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Muridae > genus Mus or mouse > of particular form, habits, or habitat country mouse1553 tree-mouse1897 nude1966 1966 S. P. Flannagan in Genetical Res. 8 295 The hairless mutant was formed by Dr. N. R. Grist of the Virus Laboratory, Ruchill Hospital, Glasgow... The name ‘nude’, symbol nu, has been adopted. 1968 Nature 27 Jan. 371/1 (heading) Section of liver of an adult homozygote nude. 1977 P. B. Medawar & J. S. Medawar Life Sci. xiv. 120 The mutant mice known as nudes in which cell-mediated immunity is so gravely impaired that even grafts of human tissues can be accepted are not nearly so susceptible to tumours as the theory of immunological surveillance encourages us to believe. 1987 N. Maclean Macmillan Dict. Genetics & Cell Biol. 280/1 Mice homozygous for the gene ‘nude’ are referred to as nu nu. Derivatives ˈnudely adv. barely, simply, plainly; in an unclothed or unconcealed state. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > state or quality of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded > [adverb] > without addition or qualification simplya1325 singlya1400 simpliciter?a1425 merelyc1449 nudelya1631 a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1956) VIII. 102 Being crudely, and nudely taken, not decocted and boyl'd up. 1888 R. Kipling Early Verse (1986) 391 Crudely, nudely, rudely, rawly, Saying, ‘Take back this Macauley’. 1910 H. James Let. 14 Mar. in H. James & E. Wharton Lett. (1990) iii. 153 Osler ‘examined’ me more thoroughly & nudely than I have ever been examined before. 1973 A. Hunter Gently French xi. 96 She got out of bed and stood for a moment, nudely glaring. ˈnudeness n. the state of being naked or unclothed. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > nakedness or state of being unclothed > [noun] nakedOE nakedOE nakednessOE nakedheadc1330 nudity1611 the (also a) state of nature1802 nudeness1848 in the nude1856 clotheslessness1883 1848 T. H. Chivers Virginalia (1853) 93 As Winter waits for Spring to come again, And robe her nudeness in her green array. 1895 Cent. Mag. Aug. 494/2 Whether the nudeness itself outraged his sense of propriety. 1995 A. Warner Morvern Callar (1996) 192 You watched the holidaymakers in different stages of nudeness move along the promenade. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † nudev. Forms: 1800s nude; Scottish pre-1700 nwde. Origin: Probably of multiple origins. Probably a borrowing from Latin. Probably partly formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: Latin nūdāre ; nude adj. Etymology: Probably partly < classical Latin nūdāre nudate v., and partly < nude adj. Compare denude v. Obsolete. rare. 1. transitive. To deprive or strip (a person) of something. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > loss > taking away > take away [verb (transitive)] > deprive (of) benimc890 to do of ——eOE bedealc1000 disturbc1230 bereavec1275 reave?a1300 acquitc1300 benemec1300 deprivec1330 privea1382 subvertc1384 oppressc1395 abridgea1400 to bate of, from1399 lessa1400 nakena1400 dischargea1425 privatec1425 to bring outa1450 abatec1450 sever?1507 spulyie?1507 denude1513 disable1529 distrain1530 destituec1540 destitutec1540 defalk1541 to turn out of ——1545 discomfit1548 wipe1549 nude1551 disannul?a1556 bereft1557 diminish1559 benoom1563 joint1573 uncase1583 rid1585 disarm1590 visitc1592 ease1600 dispatch1604 unfurnisha1616 rig1629 retrench1640 unbecomea1641 disentail1641 cashier1690 twin1722 mulct1748 fordo1764 to do out of ——1796 to cut out1815 bate1823 deprivate1832 devoid1878 1551–2 in J. Fullarton Rec. Burgh Prestwick (1834) 62 The inquest..ordains hym to be nwdyt of his fredome. 2. transitive. To unclothe, make naked, uncover. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > undressing or removing clothing > undress or remove clothing [verb (transitive)] > strip or undress a person > make naked denudate1634 nude1845 nakedize1858 1845 T. Cooper Purgatory of Suicides i. lxxv. 26 They clothe with prudent mask The image from whose worship Man might swerve If nuded. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.adv.n.1493v.1551
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† nudev.